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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Tuesday announced $5.6 billion in funding will go to 1,200 communities through more than 2,400 grants to States, urban counties, insular areas, DC, Puerto Rico, and local organizations across the country. These annual formula grants provide critical funding for a wide range of activities including affordable housing, community development, and homeless assistance.
Read moreAttorney General Gentner Drummond, along with Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings and attorneys general representing 33 other states, sent a letter to Congressional leaders this week informing them of an alarming issue with the National Human Trafficking Hotline and requesting their assistance to preserve the critical joint federal-state effort to end trafficking.
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The car pictured above veered off the road, hit an embankment and went airborne to the other side of the road, hitting a stop sign and rolling over a few times Sunday morning. The wreck happened at Hwy 56 and EW 1270 at around 9:40 a.m.
Read moreA Seminole resident has been charged with one felony count of Battery/Assault and Battery on Detention Officer. According to the felony information filed in this case Josea Anibal Ramos Jr., 46, “on or about the 13th day of February, by willfully and unlawfully hitting (Detention Officer) in the face with his fist and hitting him about his head and body with the intent to injure (Detention Officer), knowing (Detention Officer) was a Seminole County Detention Officer who was performing the duties of a Seminole County Detention Officer.
Read moreEarly voting on SQ 820, the legalization of recreational marijuana in Oklahoma, will get underway later this week across the state.
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Seminole State College held a disaster training event for nursing students on Feb. 22 inside the Enoch Kelly Haney Center on campus.
Read moreThe Oklahoma Sheriffs Association (“OSA”), Oklahoma Association of Chiefs of Police (“OACP”), and Oklahoma District Attorneys Association (“ODAA”) Monday announced the formation of the Oklahoma Public Safety Coalition (“OPSC”). The OPSC will work together to support policy initiatives which further public safety in Oklahoma and will actively oppose policies which would threaten public safety.
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